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How to Prepare for Ramadhaan?
As Ramadhaan starts on Thursday in UAE, Saudi Arabia and adjoining places, I extend my hearty greetings to all my respected blog readers: RAMADHAAN MUBAARAK TO YOU 🙂
I request you to go through this short and sweet video that conveys the significance of Ramadhaan in a brief and yet comprehensive way. This can be shown in corporate offices and educational institutions as part of Welcoming the blessed Month, InShaaAllah. It's for about 4 Minutes only.
Also, watch this video: Two Best Times in Ramadhaan, InShaaAllah:
May Allah give us the Tawfeeque to spend the blessed month in the most beneficial manner possible, InshaaAllah.
Baarakallaahu Feekum.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Qur'an Glossary
Qur'an - Mus'haf
- 01. A Clear and an Excellent View: MADINAH MUS'HAF (New)
- 02. A Nice Mus'haf, Masha'Allah
- 03. Nice One for Android, iPhones
- 04. AYAT: A Beautiful Android Version
- 05. Mus'haf for WINDOWS PHONE
- 06. South African/Similar to Indo-Pak SCRIPT
- 07. Qur'an ANDROID
- 08. Colour Coded Tajweed Mus'haf
- 09. Tajweed Mus'haf
- 10. Read Qur'an in beautiful flash format with colour-coded Tajweed rules. With realistic page-turning experience, it has good navigation facility
- 11. Surah-wise Pdf files
- 12. The Muslim-web Resource
- 13. The Qur'an Encyclopedia
Hadeeth & Sunnah (For all Hadeeth links, see Right Side Bar under 'Hadeeth Resources')
Starter Packs
- 01. A good e-book, "Al Qaa'ida An-nooraaniyyah": Description and Features plus download links to Audio Files
- 02. A well-designed and user-friendly flash application for teaching the letters of Arabic alphabet and how to read and pronounce Qur'anic words correctly
- 03. Qur'an for Beginners – Colourful
- 04. At-Tibyaan: Easy Way to Qur'anic Reading
- 05. This website will assist you to learn how to pronounce Arabic letters
Qur'an Learning Interface
"Way to the Qur'an"
Chapter Introduction
Thematic Commentary
Tilawah, Reciting the Qur'an
Recitations with Translations
Audio Recitations
Saheeh International English Translation
Other English Translations
- 1. A Survey of English Translations" (Before beginning to understand the Qur'an through Eng. translation, it is RECOMMENDED to go through this Survey)
- 2. Comparison Between English Translations of the Meanings of the Qur'an"
- 3. Three Major Errors in 12 English Translations of the Qur'an"
- 4. The Qur'an in Translation
- Arabic Text & English Translation
- By Adil Salahi
- By Aisha Bewley
- By Al Huda – Word-to-Word
- By Dr. Basheer Ahmad Mohyidin
- By Dr. Mustafa al Khattab (The Clear Qur'an)
- By Imtiaz Ahmed (updated)
- By M A S Abdel Haleem
- By Marmaduke Pickthall
- By Muhammad Mohar Ali (word-for-word)
- By Muhsin Khan & Hilali (with Audio)
- By Muhsin Khan and Al Hilali (New)
- By Muhsin Khan and al Hilali (ONLY in ENGLISH)
- By Ruwwad Translation Centre in collaboration with IslamHouse
- By Taqi Usmani
- By The Qur'an Project
- By Wahiduddin Khan
- Colour coded Noble Qur'an – Word for Word with Grammatical Notes by Darussalam (Download from different links as per your need)
- Colour-coded Arabic & English
- Surah al Kahf_BIG FONT_WITH URDU TRANSLATION
Tajweed, Recite Correctly
- * The Letter Poem
- Al Qaa'idah al Qur'aaniyyah: An Introduction to Tajweed
- Alphabet Sound Practice
- ARE WE Neglecting the Importance of Tajweed?
- Help Yourself – For Beginners
- Interesting blog
- iTunes
- Know Your Tajweed!
- Learn Tajweed (Very Good One!)
- Makharij Videos (EXCELLENT)
- Practice/Quiz
- Reach the Goal via Tajweed Rules
- Read with Tajweed
- Reading with the Sheikh (MUST)
- Tajweed for Kids
- Tajweed Lessons
- Tajweed Links
- Tajweed Rules of the Qur'an, Part 1
- Tajweed Rules of the Qur'an, Part 2
- Tajweed Rules of the Qur'an, Part 3
- Tajweed Software: Ahkaam al-Tajweed. A compilation of the rules of Tajweed from the narration of Hafs from 'Asim. Contains an introduction about Tajweed and the Qur'aan; the topics are well-categorized into chapters
- Your Tajweed Made Easy
Aid to Memorization (Hifz)
- "I Wanna Be a Hafidhaa Too"
- Advantages of being a Haafiz
- An Interview with a grandmother who memorized the Qur'an at the age of 82!
- An interview with an O-level Student who memorised the Qur'an
- Causes that aid (courtesy fajr.wp)
- Creative Way to learn the names/order of the Surahs
- Flash Presentations
- Golden Rules for Memorizing the Qur'an
- Interview with Ustadhah Kareema Czerepinski, Author of Tajweed Rules of the Qur'an
- Memorizing the Qur'an – Power Point Presentation
- Motivation
- Mutashabihaat Verses – Good compilation!
- Qur'an Memorisation TRACKER
- Qur'an Memorization CD
- Qur'an Memorizer
- Rules to assist
- Saying SADAQALLAAHUL ADHEEM
- Similarities in the Qur'an
- This is also helpful
- This one is helpful
- This too is helpful
- You can select Surah, click 'Audio' to listen, click 'Recite this Section' to save & listen repeatedly until it gets memorized
- You will find this interesting in memorizing selected parts of the Qur'an
Du'aa: Khatmul Qur'an
Learning Qur'anic Arabic
- 80% of the Qur'anic Words
- Beautiful Cards to Share :) :)
- Concise Dictionary of the Qur'an
- Essentials of Qur'anic Arabic, Vol 1 by Masood Ranginwala
- Essentials of Qur'anic Arabic, Vol 2 by Masood Ranginwala
- Learn the Language of the Qur'an by Dr. Abdullah Abbas Nadwi
- Learning Arabic Language of the Qur'an by Izzath Uroosa
- Mini Dictionary
- Project Root
- Qur'anic Verbs
- Seventeen Types of Arabic Verbs
- The Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage
- The Easy Dictionary of the Qur'an
- Understand Arabic
Word for Word by Muhammad Mohar Ali
- 01-03 Surah al Fatiha to Surah Aal Imran
- 04-07 Surah al Nisa to Surah al A'raaf
- 08-11 Surah al Anfaal to Surah Huud
- 12-18 Surah Yusuf to Surah al Kahf
- 19-26 Surah Maryam to Surah Ash Shuaraa
- 27-35 Surah al Naml to Surah al Faathir
- 36-55 Surah Yaseen to Surah Ar Rahmaan
- 56-77 Surah al Waqiah to Surah al Mursalaat
- 78-114 Surah an Naba to Surah an Naas
Word to Word by Dr.Shehnaz and Kausar
Qur'an Dictionary by Abdul Karim Parekh
Useful Qur'an Dictionaries
Understanding Salah
- Adhkaar After Salah (What to say after every obligatory prayer)
- Daily Recitations: Word-to-word
- DU'AA OF LIGHT: During Sajdah and While Going to Masjid
- Love of Allah
- Meaningful Salah
- Qur'an Course Book
- Rediscovering Prayer: Communicating with Allah (A MUST READ)
- TYPES of Salah and their VALIDITY
- What To Say after Salah
Du'aa (Supplications)
- 1000 Sunan
- 1000 Sunan – CD 1
- 1000 Sunan – CD 2
- 2 Best Times for Du'aa in Ramadhaan
- 40 Rabbana Du'aas from the Qur'an
- A concise and comprehensive all-in-one Du'aa
- A Dua Seeking Refuge from 23 hateful things
- Adhkaar After Salah (What to say after every obligatory prayer)
- Azkaar After Obligatory Salah
- Azkaar and Du'aas in Salah
- Basic Ramadhaan Duaas
- Beautiful yet Simple Supplications
- Best Times to Make Du'aa
- Best Times to Make Du'aas on Friday (Sa'at-ul-Istijaabah)
- Colourful Du'aas in Arabic & English
- Common Daily Supplications
- Daily Du'aa Book (Excellent)
- Du'aa (Khatm) at the end of one full recitation
- Du'aa and Dhikr App
- Du'aa Booklet
- Du'aa Cards
- Du'aa of Laylatul Qadr
- Du'aa Qunoot
- DU'AA QUNOOT – Good Explanation
- Du'aain in Urdu
- Du'aain_Urdu
- Du'aas – Audio link
- Du'aas – Audio Resource
- Du'aas during UMRAH
- Du'aas in Times of DISTRESS
- Du'aas of the Prophets and Messenges
- Du'aas that are Not Rejected
- Du'aas That Changed the World
- Golden Supplications for Kids
- Hisnul Muslim (chm file)
- Hisnul Muslim (online)
- Hisnul Muslim – Audio CD 1
- Hisnul Muslim – Audio CD 2
- Hisnul Muslim – Online
- Hisnul Muslim: Fortress of a Muslim (PDF)
- Jawame Du'aa
- Key to A Successful Day
- LISTEN to this BEAUTIFUL Taraweeh DU'AA by Sheik Muhammad Jebril
- Making Du'aas through the NAMES of Allah
- Prophetic Du'aas 2_Arabic
- Prophetic Du'aas_Arabic
- RAMADHAAN Du'aas in Arabic and English
- Sajdah Shukr
- Script of Sheikh Jebril's Taraweeh Du'aa with colour-coded Text/Translation
- Zikr-ul-laah, Remembering Allah
Spiritual Healing
Tafaseer (Commentaries)
- * Ibn Taymiyyah's Principles of Tafseer with Explanation by Shaykh Salih al Uthaymeen
- * Kinds of Tafseer
- * Principles of Tafseer (From Ahmad von Denffor's Ulum al-Qur'an)
- * Principles of Tafseer (Usool at-Tafseer by Dr.Bilal Philips)
- * The Prophetic Commentary of the Qur'an
- * The Taabieen known for Tafseer proficiency
- A Thematic Commentary on the Qur'an (updated)
- Asbab al Nuzul, Reasons for Revelations
- By Abdul Majid Daryabadi (online)
- By Jalalayn (online, Arabic * Check the relevant box))
- By Jalalyn (English/complete, in one file)
- By Mufti Muhammad Shafi (Ma'ariful Qur'an/Separate pdf files)
- By Mufti Muhammad Shafi (Maariful Qur'an/Online)
- By Nouman Ali Khan
- By Shams Pirzada (Dawatul Qur'an)
- Different Tafaseer (King Saud Uni)
- Juz by Juz Summary of all 30 Parts
- Key to Al Kahf: Challenging Materialism and Godlessness
- Surah al Kahf by Tafseer Jalaalyn
- Surah Ar-Rahman (Points of Learning)
- Sural al Kahf_Meanings and Commentary
- Tafseer al Majidi by Abdul Majid Daryabadi
- Tafseer by Qurtubi, Vol. 1
- Tafseer Ibn Abbas
- Tafseer of Aayatul Kursi (GREATEST AYAH)
- Tafseer of Surah al Buruuj
- Tafseer of Surah al Fatiha (By Life with Allah)
- Tafseer of Surah Al Fatihah (SIX different commentaries)
- Tafseer of Surah al Fatihah (The Spiritual Cure)
- Tafseer of Surah al Hadeed by Imam As-Sadee
- Tafseer of Surah al Kahf
- Tafseer of Surah al Kahf by Sheikh Salih al Uthaymeen
- Tafseer of Surah At-Tawbah
- Tafseer of Surah Maryam
- Tafseer of Surah Tawbah (by 5 commentators)
- Tafseer of the BISMILLAH Verse by Hamiduddin Farahi
- Tafseer of the THREE QULs, the last 3 Surahs
- The Book of Tafseer – Muslim
- The Qur'an: Translation and Notes in English (Good one for non-Muslim readers as this has no Arabic Text)
- Thematic Tafseer: Heavenly Hues, Master Notes
Tafseer Ibn Kathir
Tafseer of the Last Tenth of the Qur'an
Tafseer As-Sa'di
Tafheem al Qur'an
Tadabbur al Qur'an
Ma'ariful Qur'an
- By Mufti Muhammad Shafi (Ma'ariful Qur'an/Separate pdf files)
- Surah Locator
- Vol 1 – Surah al Fatihah and Surah al Baqarah
- Vol 2 – Surah Aali Imran and Surah An-Nisaa
- Vol 3 – Surah Al Maa'idah to Al A'raaf
- Vol 4 – Surah Al A'raaf to Surah Huud
- Vol 5 – Surah Yusuf to Surah al Kahf
- Vol 6 – Surah Maryam to Surah Room
- Vol 7 – Surah Luqmaan to Surah al Ahqaaf
- Vol 8 – Surah Muhammad to Surah An-Naas
Reference Resources
- al itqan fi 'Ulum al Qur'an
- Al Mufradaat fi ghareebil Qur'an
- An Index of Qur'anic Verses with Hadith Explanation
- Asbab al Nuzul, Reasons for Revelations
- Chronological Order of Surahs
- Coherence in the Qur'an
- Dictionary of Islamic Terms
- Dictionary of Qur'anic Terms and Concepts
- Documentary on the Evolution of the Writing of the Mus'haf
- Excellent Qur'an Dictionary (online)
- Exordium to the Coherance in the Qur'an by Hamid al Din Farahi
- Glossary of Islamic Terms
- History of the Qur'anic Text
- Islamic Library
- Journal Of Qur'anic Research and Studies
- Lisaan ul Qur'an 3 Volume Set with Keys
- Makki & Madani Surahs
- Mu'jam Abjadi Lil-aayaat
- Mu'jam al Mufahras
- Qur'an Index
- Qur'an STRUCTURE
- Qur'an Subjects (Good one)
- Qur'anic Verbs
- Sciences of the Qur'an (Ulum al Qur'an)
- The Qur'an and ORIENTALISTS by Muhammad Mohar Ali
- Verbal Idioms of the Qur'an
- Words used in the Qur'an
Qur'an Word Search
Children's Resources
- * Basics
- * Islamic Studies Blog
- * Softwares
- 30 Hadeeth for Children
- About Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
- An Excellent Software to learn about the Prophet of Mercy
- Arabic Alphabet Writing
- Arabic Letters Pronunciation
- Arabic pronunciation tips
- Colouring Fun
- Cool site for Muslim children!
- Do your work & Trust in Allah
- Everything is for Allah!
- Five Pillars of Islam
- Fun Activity (KG-Gr2)
- Good Games
- Hajj for children – NICE ONE!
- History of Palestine
- IQRA's Children Section
- Islamic Education Series by Maulvi Abdul Aziz
- Islamic Quiz
- Islamic Quiz (Gr 3-4)
- Kids Media
- Kids Only
- Kids Zone
- Landscapes in the Qur'an
- Learn how to do Wudhu (Ablution)
- Life of the Prophet (Peace be upon him) Read by Yusuf Islam
- Memorization & More…
- Muslim Kids Online Magazine
- Muslim Manners
- Nurturing Eemaan in Children
- Owners of the Garden
- Painting Page (KG)
- Play and Learn
- Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
- Qur'an – The Gateway to Faith (Audio: Speech by Yusuf Islam)
- Seal of the Prophets – Islamic Song
- Search Surah Names – GAME
- Step by Step Salah Guide
- Tawheed
- Understand Qur'an – Qur'anic Course
Links related to Qur'an & Modern Science
- An Amazing Video – MUST Watch!
- An Article
- Another article
- Commission on Scientific Signs in Qur'an and Sunnah
- Dr. Gary Miller
- Dr. Keith Moore (Documentary)
- Dr. Maurice Bucaille
- Embryology in the Qur'an: A Linguistic and Scientific Study
- Good book
- Human Creation
- Islam and Science
- Islam's Contribution to World Civilization
- IslamReligion
- Key to Understanding Islam
- On Cosmic Verses
- Origins of the Universe & Other Scientific Topics
- Perfectly Compatible
- Qur'an and Science
- Qur'an and the Skin's sensory nature
- Scientific Truths in the Qur'an
- Scientific Truths in the Qur'an
- Scientists Comment
- Scientists Comment on the Qur'an
- Spectacular Evidence of the Greatness of Almighty Allah
- The amazing Qur'an (pdf)
- The Amazing Qur'an by Gary Miller (AUDIO)
- The Universe Beyond
- This is Truth!
- What is the Origin of Man?
- Why Islam? – Proofs from Modern Science
Links to Qur'an Page
- Allah's Qur'an
- Bihar Anjuman's
- Exhaustic Downloads (Only Arabic)
- Fully Loaded
- Great downloads
- Islaam
- Islam 101
- Islam QA
- Islam Today
- Islamicity
- IslamOnLine
- Islamweb
- Qur'an is a Proof: For You or Against You!
- Quran in flash
- Quran.net
- Renaissance
- Sound Vision
- Text & Translations (Note: Discretion required in Yusuf Ali's Commentary & Translation)
- Understand Qur'an
My other blogs
Thank You Akismet :)
Assalamu Alaikum!
Welcome! ما شآء الله / الحمد لله
هذا من فضل ربّ This is from the Blessings of my Lord. May Allah put barakah in what He's given Us. اللهم بارك لنا فيما أعطيت
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Treasure Hunt
TOP POSTS alhamdulillah
- Nasrum Minallaahi Wa Fathun Qareeb
- 'Allahumma Maalikal Mulki Tu'til Mulka Man Tashaa'u....'
- Amr bil Maroof wa Nahi 'anil Munkar
- "Hasbunallahu Wa Ni'mal Wakeel"
- Ni'mal Maula Wa Ni'man Naseer!
- Surahs beginning with Alhamdulillaah
- Numbers in the Qur'an
- Haza Min Fadhli Rabbee
- Takbeer, Tahleel, Tahmeed and Tasbeeh
Qur'an Images & History
Know Your Sajdah
- Amazing Facts about Sajdah
- Prostration of Forgetfulness – Sajdah Sahw
- Sajdah Shukr, Prostration of Gratefulness
- Sajdah Shukr: Du'aas
- Sajdah Tilawah: Evidences from Hadeeth
- Sajdah Tilawah: Places of Prostration in the Qur'an
- Sajdah Tilawah: What to say in
- Secret of Prayer: Sujood
- TRY THIS: Feel the Difference
- You shouldn't recite Qur'an in Sajdah but….
Qur'an Translations
- 03. Nice One for Android, iPhones
- By Imtiaz Ahmed
- DUTCH (Netherlands – Online)
- Iranooni
- Sinhalese
- Tafheemul Qur'an in URDU
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Unani
- Urdu Word to Word in Colours
- Urdu Word-to-Word by Al Huda
NOTE: The above ↑ translations are in PDF files.
For Online Translations in:
Bangla, Czech, Farsi, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Maranao, Norwegian, Polish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Tatar, and Uzbek, Please VISIT quran.com/1
Hadeeth Resources
- * Resourceful = Sunnah.Com
- ** Hadeeth and Sunnah as Second Source of Islamic Thought and Culture
- 100 Fabricated Hadeeths
- 100 Famous but WEAK Hadeeth
- 100 Hadeeth for Children
- 1000 Sunan
- 1000 Sunan – CD 1
- 1000 Sunan – CD 2
- 110 Hadeeth Qudsi
- 200 Golden Hadiths
- 30 Hadeeth for Children
- 40 Hadeeth Qudsi
- 40 Hadeeths by An-Nawawi
- A Day in the House of the Messenger of Allah
- A Study on the Hadeeths of Virtues
- Adab al Mufrad by Imam Bukhari
- Al Muwatta – Online
- Al Muwatta of Imam Malik
- Android App: Hadeeth Collection (All in One)
- Ash-Shamaa'il – The Characteristics of Prophet Muhammad (sal…) by Tirmidhi
- Authentication of Hadeeth, Redefining the Criteria
- Chain of Command (Notes on Sciences of Hadeeth)
- Commentary on 40 Hadeeth of An-Nawawi by Prof. Jamal
- Commentary on the 40 Hadeeths of An-Nawawi, Part 1
- Commentary on the 40 Hadeeths of An-Nawawi, Part 2
- Components and Classification of Hadeeth
- Concocted and Weak Hadeeths
- Development of Hadeeth Literature
- Hadith Narrator Index
- Hadith Subject Index
- Hisnul Muslim: Fortress of a Muslim
- Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal's Treatise on Prayer
- Letters of the Prophet
- Muqaddimah Sahih Muslim
- Notes on Science of Hadith by Dr. Mahmood at Tahhaan
- Nukbat al Fikr (Classical work on Usool al hadeeth)
- Riyadhus Saliheen (Arabic-English, colour-coded)
- Riyadhus Saliheen (Online with Arabic Text)
- Riyadhus Saliheen (pdf)
- Sahih Bukhari
- Sahih Muslim (Complete version)
- Seerah Blog
- Selected ahadeeth from Saheeh al Jaami
- Studies in Hadeeth Methodology & Literature
- Sunnah: The Source of Civilization
- The 200 Hadeeth
- The book of Knowledge by Imam Nasa'ee with notes by Nasiruddin Albani – GREAT READING!
- The Compilation of Hadeeth
- The Farewell Advice of the Prophet
- The Status of Sunnah in Islam
- The Sunnah and Its Role in Legislation
- Thulaathiyyaat From Musnad Imam Ahmed Bin Hanbal
- Usool al Hadeeth by Dr. Bilal Philips
Alim Software
Mobile Phone Softwares
- 03. Nice One for Android, iPhones
- 07. Qur'an ANDROID
- Allah's Names
- Arabic Text with Tashkeel – Good One!
- Audio Recitation
- Best Free Mobile Qur'an Application
- IQur'an
- Listen & read Names of Allah
- Noble Qur'an – Palm OS/Pocket PC format
- Prophet's Duaas
- Prophet's Duaas – Another one
- Qur'an Explorer for iPhone/iPad
- Qur'an Reader Arabic + English
- Qur'an Word to word translation
- The Qur'an Project App for Phones and Tablets
↑ Al Quran for MS-Word. This software will add a new menu "Al-Quran" as Add-Ins to MS Word.
BENEFIT: You can easily insert an ayah of the Qur'an or its translation to your word file, InshaaAllah
Arabic Learning Resources
- * Dr. V. Abdur Rahim's Blog
- * Guide to Dr. V Abdur Rahim's Resources
- 12 Tables To Understand/Speak Arabic
- 17 Types of Arabic Verbs
- 80% of the Qur'anic Words
- Al Mawrid: Arabic-English Dictionary
- Arabic Alphabet Writing
- Arabic Gems
- Arabic Letters Pronunciation
- Arabic pronunciation tips
- Arabic Resources (Full Downloads)
- Arabic Search in Major Resources
- Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane
- Dr. V Abdur Rahim's DVD Download Links
- Excellent Site to Learn Qur'anic Arabic
- Fatwa Online's Arabic Downloads
- Find great resources here
- Free Online Arabic Course
- Good one
- HANS-WEHR Arabic-English Dictionary Ed. by J M Cowan
- Institute of the Language of the Qur'an, Toronto
- Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic
- Learn 80% of Qur'anic words
- Learn the Language of the Qur'an by Dr. Abdullah Abbas Nadwi
- Lexicons/Dictionaries
- Linguistic Miracle
- Lisaan ul Qur'an 3 Volume Set with Keys
- Madinah Ar. Reader, ANSWERS 1
- Madinah Ar. Reader, ANSWERS 2
- Madinah Ar. Reader, ANSWERS 3
- Madinah Arabic Reader (KEY BOOKS in Urdu)
- Madinah Arabic Reader, KEY 1
- Madinah Arabic Reader, KEY 2
- Madinah Arabic Reader, KEY 3
- Madinah Arabic Reader, Part 1
- Madinah Arabic Reader, Part 2
- Madinah Arabic Reader, Part 3
- Mastering Madinah Arabic Books
- Mini Dictionary
- Online Arabic-English Dictionary
- Qur'an Gems – Illustrations
- Qur'anic Verbs
- Resourceful
- The Ajaaroomiyyah Blog
- Treasures of Arabic Morphology
- Understand Arabic
- Understand Qur'an
- Understand Qur'anic Arabic
Arabic Keyboard
Popular Arabic Fonts
Other Useful Links
- Aswat
- Basic RAMADHAAN Di
- Beautiful Cards to Share :) :)
- Beautiful RAMADHAN Page
- Blessings of Bismillah
- Companions of the Prophet
- Dawah Focused
- Dawah Skills
- Download Arabic Text in Word file
- Downloads
- Du
- Du
- Du'aa: Khatmul Qur'an
- Du'aas in Arabic
- E Muslim
- Excellent Qualities of the Qur'an
- Exhaustive Resource
- Fatwa Site
- For Every Ayah
- Friday Nasiha
- General Articles
- Good Articles
- Good Resource
- Hajj Flash
- Hajj Map – Good One!
- Hoor al-Ayn
- Islamic Books, 114 Languages :)
- Islamic Library
- Islamic Online University
- Islamic Pamphlets :)
- Islamic TV Channels
- Knowing Allah
- Knowledge Base
- Last Breath
- Many Features – Good one
- Muslim Heritage
- Muslim Library – Multi Lingual
- Online Library
- Perfection & Preservation
- Questions & Answers related to Qur'an & Hadith
- Qur'an is a Proof: For You or Against You!
- Qur'an Library
- Qur'an Quiz
- Qur'an Speaks
- Qur'anic Studies – For matured learners
- Qur'anic Treasures
- Qur'anOnLine
- Quran in flash
- Ramadhan Page (Sound Vision)
- Sex Education: An Islamic Perspective
- Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization – A MUST VISIT FOR THOSE IN UAE!
- Sheik Muhammad Jebril
- The Excellence of La ilaaha il-lal-laah
- The Inimitable Qur'an
- The Qur'anic Treasures by Khurram Murad
- The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
- The Story of Yusuf: Plot, Themes & Characters
- Top Misconceptions
- Women in the Qur'an and Sunnah
PowerPoint Presentations
- 7 Reasons to Read the Qur'an
- Compilation, Transmission, Preservation
- Complaint of the Qur'an
- Hadeeth on housefly
- Hadith Presentation
- Hajj – A Timeless Vision
- Hajj Pilgrimmage to Makkah
- Hajj: A Timeless Vision
- Halal Vs Haram
- Heart check-up
- ISLAM – The Greatest Liberating Force
- Islam and Environment
- Islam's Global Contribution to World Civilizations
- Islamic BANKING
- Last Breath
- Last Breath (An Inspiring Song)
- Man's Relationship with his Lord
- MARYAM in the Qur'an (Peace be upon her)
- Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
- Muhammad – The Last Messenger of Allah (Excellent One!)
- Physical Purification
- Prophet's Mission and we Muslims
- Qur'an is for…
- Ramadhaan Diary
- Ramadhaan Presentation
- Ramadhaan: Laylatul Qadr: Living the Golden Moments
- Ramadhan for Body and Soul
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To further feed paranoia in the already paranoid North Korean regime? To achieve what?
From Washington Post quoting AP (3/28/2013):
US sends nuclear-capable B-2 bombers to South Korea in show of force
SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S military says two nuclear-capable B-2 bombers have completed a training mission in South Korea amid threats from North Korea that include nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul.
The statement Thursday by U.S. Forces Korea is an unusual confirmation. It follows an earlier U.S. announcement that nuclear-capable B-52 bombers participated in ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills.
The U.S. says the B-2 stealth bombers flew from a U.S. air base and dropped munitions on a South Korean island range before returning home.
The announcement will likely draw a strong response from Pyongyang. North Korea sees the military drills as part of a U.S. plot to invade and becomes particularly upset about U.S. nuclear activities in the region.
Washington and Seoul say they the annual drills are routine and defensive.
"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the addition of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to military drills with South Korea was part of normal exercises and not intended to provoke a reaction from the north." (CBS News, 3/28/2013)
To fly two B-2 stealth bombers to and from South Korea, it costs $5.5 million, according to Antiwar.com.
(Sequester? What sequester?)

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There's a tree outside my bedroom window with one leaf on it.
This one leaf will not let go.
I mentioned I was on a journey to find my true colors. No longer hidden by green chlorophyll, this leaf found its color. It's red.
But it's not letting go.
Every morning, I see this stubborn autumn leaf. It hangs on, clinging to a thin branch.
I check on it after rain, after heavy winds—and there it is. Still on its tree in mid-December.
I said I was a leaf. I think I'm this one. The one that won't let go.
Why am I holding on to who I was?
People change. Priorities change. Experiences shape and reshape us. Why do we resist?
Is it difficult to accept? Do we become complacent? Are we uncomfortable admitting we are not who we thought we were?
I'm thinking all of these are rooted in fear.
So, while I've found some of my true colors, I'm finding it difficult to let go.
A friend asked me why I continue thinking of myself as a woman I clearly no longer am. I didn't have an answer.
But now I know that I am afraid.
My Sunday thoughts in 200 words or less.
Do you have difficulty letting go of who you were? Why? What is stopping you from moving on?


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The Honda CBR600RR is a 599 cc (36.6 cu in) sport bike, part of the CBR series that was introduced by Honda in 2003 as a race replica version of Honda's CBR600F series. It won every Supersport World Championship title from 2002 to 2008, and again in 2010 and 2014. The engine for the Moto2 World Championship in MotoGP was also based on the CBR600RR since the class débuted in 2010, and was used until the end of the 2018 season before they are replaced by 765cc (46.7 cu in) triple engines supplied by Triumph Motorcycles for the 2019 season.
Revision history
The CBR600RR was introduced in 2003 as race replica alternative to Honda's more street oriented 600-class sport bike, the CBR600F4i. It was based on technologies used in the Honda RC211V MotoGP bike, and was given a similar appearance. It was the first Honda to use Unit Pro-Link rear suspension and Dual Stage Fuel Injection (PGM-DSFI), both were taken directly from Honda's MotoGP bike. Honda said the use of its new 'Hollow Fine Die Cast' frame technology, in which sand casting molds were given a ceramic interior coating, made it possible to reduce the five-piece aluminum frame thickness from 3.5 mm to 2.5 mm.
The 2003 model carried over to 2004 technically unchanged, with only the addition of an oxygen sensor.
In 2005, the CBR600RR received a major revision with new bodywork, fully adjustable inverted front forks, disc brakes with radial-mounted four-piston calipers, and a new aluminium frame, swingarm and rear shock. The midrange power was also increased. These changes along with additional refinements to the engine and exhaust system brought CBR600RR's wet weight down by 10.0 kg (22 lb), and dry weight by 4.1 kg (9 lb) The 2006 model was unchanged from the 2005 model.
On September 6, 2006, Honda revealed an all new CBR600RR for the 2007 model year.
Weight was the primary focus of the redesign. The result was a 9.1 kg (20 lb) reduction in dry weight over the 2006 model, from a claimed 163.7 kg (361 lb) to 154.7 kg (341 lb). Tested weights without fuel were 182–182 kg (401–402 lb).
In redesigning the CBR600RR for lighter weight and increased performance, Honda's engineers started with the engine. The completely new engine was smaller and lighter than its predecessor, the designers having used careful positioning of all internal components to achieve reductions in the motor's length, width, and height, as well as reducing weight by 2 kg (4.4 lb) compared to the 2006 model's powerplant. Horsepower increased to about 105 hp (78 kW) measured in independent tests.
The frame was lighter and more compact than the 2006 CBR600RR. The handling of the new bike was sharpened by its 22 mm (0.87 in) shorter wheelbase, as well as by the designer's focus on strict mass centralization. Despite the shorter wheelbase, the 2007 model's swingarm was 5 mm (0.20 in) longer than that of the 2006, made possible by the more compact dimensions of the new bike's engine.
The suspension of the 2007 model was carried over almost unchanged from the 2006 bike, with the same 41 mm (1.6 in) inverted fork in front, and Honda's Unit Pro-Link rear suspension configuration damping the rear wheel. The new three-spoke cast aluminum wheels were also lighter than those on the 2006 bike, which further contributed to the enhanced performance of the suspension. The brakes had dual radial-mount four-piston calipers and twin 310 mm (12 in) discs at the front, and a single-piston caliper and a 220 mm (8.7 in) disc at the rear. Hidden below the steering head was an updated version of the Honda Electronic Steering Damper (HESD) system, which was also available on the CBR1000RR.
The smaller, sharper-edged new front upper fairing was dominated by the large central ram-air duct which fed the airbox through an opening in the steering head section of the frame and was separated from the sides of the fairing by a large gap which Honda said was for air management purposes. The tail-section was similarly smaller and sharper-edged, riding atop a heavily restyled under-seat muffler.
Combined ABS prototype
On June 9, 2008, Honda revealed a CBR600RR prototype that had an all new braking system branded as Combined ABS which integrated combined braking, anti-lock braking, and brake-by-wire systems. Combined ABS used a computer control unit to ensure the correct balance of front and rear brake use and also controlled when the ABS should engage. The system was designed to be as unobtrusive as possible by delaying the engagement of the ABS until the last possible moment. Combined ABS was not made available on the production 2008 CBR600RR.
On September 5, 2008, Honda introduced a revised CBR600RR for the 2009 model year. Combined ABS became available as an option under the model (CBR600RA). Other changes included updates to the engine such as changes to its pistons, cylinder head and exhaust that Honda claims will increase torque delivery between 8,000–12,000 rpm with a 3.5% increase in torque at 10,000 rpm. The CBR600RR's engine also received a new high resistance valve lifter and a popup valve system inherited from the CBR1000RR. looks were the same as last year apart from some extra mouldings added to the fairing mid-sections that enhance stability and reduce noise emission levels by now totally enclosing the clutch and gearbox . Although all of these changes involved the addition of some materials, the overall weight of the 2009 CBR600RR remained the same as the 2008 model. This was achieved through weight savings in the engine, exhaust, and the chassis.
The CBR600RR carried over for the 2010, 2011 and 2012 model years.
The 2013 CBR600RR includes new 12-spoke wheels, revised ECU settings, and a fine-tuned ram-air system to increase torque. It also gets a new Showa "Big Piston Fork" and retuned rear shock in a new bodywork. The model continued unchanged through the 2017 model year. Motorcycle.com said that while the CBR600RR's performance specifications, particularly the horsepower, were "pretty tame even for the middleweight class", and it lacked the newest technologies like cornering ABS, traction control and mobile apps, it remained a comfortable and good handling sport bike for the street.
According to Motor Cycle News, an unnamed Japanese source at Honda said that CBR600RR sales in Europe and the UK will end after the 2016 model year due to the redesign costs necessary to comply with Euro4 emissions regulations, which will come into effect on January 1, 2017. Sales of 2017 model year CBR600RRs in other markets are unaffected.
For the 2007 model year, the CBR600RR competed with the Ducati 749, a completely redesigned Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R, the Suzuki GSX-R600, the Triumph Daytona 675, and the Yamaha YZF-R6. Shootout comparisons by motorcycle magazines consistently awarded the CBR600RR first place in the super sport class. Major print and online publishers praise the bike for its powerful engine and class-leading light weight.
For the 2008 model year, the CBR600RR continued to compete with the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R, a revised Suzuki GSX-R600, the Triumph Daytona 675, and a Yamaha R6. Even with no technical changes from the 2007 model, the CBR600RR continued to win middleweight shootouts including Sport Rider's middle weight shootout, Motorcycle-USA's middleweight comparison, and Motorcycle.com's middleweight comparison.
As of 2015, in the Supersport World Championship, the CBR600 has claimed eight out of twelve titles since its introduction in 2003, whilst also helping Honda to ten manufacturers crowns since 2003. Michael Dunlop holds the supersport lap record at the Isle of Man TT.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Who killed J.R.?
That's the mystery propelling "Dallas" through the rest of its second season as a TNT revival.
And that question hangs heavy in the upcoming episode (airing Monday at 9 p.m. EDT), which confirms the sad truth every viewer knew was coming: glorious scoundrel J.R. Ewing has died, after decades of living-on-the-edge infamy dating back at least to 1980, when he was gunned down in his office and left for dead, with "Who shot J.R.?" the question on every viewer's lips for months afterward.
J.R.'s fate was sealed this time by the intrusion of reality. In November, actor Larry Hagman died of cancer at 81. And when he died, he took J.R. with him.
So the new episode — surely the first without Hagman's deliciously vile presence — stands as a fitting tribute both to him and to J.R., complete with a wake and a funeral for the rascally oil baron. Even the oh-so-familiar theme music is rearranged from its quickstep tempo to a dirge. The message of this episode, titled "J.R.'s Masterpiece": J.R. is gone but not forgotten.
Last Monday's episode featured the last, brief appearances by a visibly frail Hagman. There were three isolated scenes with J.R., who for reasons unknown had gone missing from Dallas. But the action mostly swirled among the other characters as they squabbled over Ewing Energies, which has pitted cousins John Ross (played by Josh Henderson) and Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe) in a battle for its control.
In his final scene, near the end of the hour, J.R. was glimpsed at an undisclosed location on the phone with John Ross.
"Don't you worry, son, I've got a plan," J.R. told him. "It's gonna be my masterpiece. Because you shouldn't have to pay for my sins."
"What do you mean?" asked John Ross, struck by J.R.'s rare show of tenderness.
"Just remember, I'm proud of you," said J.R., as John Ross' eyes moistened. "You're my son, from tip to tail."
But at that moment, John Ross heard gunshots. He screamed into the phone, "Dad! Dad!"
Who shot J.R.?
"I need to know who killed my father, and why!" snaps John Ross in the new episode.
Sue Ellen, his mother and J.R.'s long-suffering ex-wife (played by Linda Gray), hoists a Dallas directory and reminds him, "Half the people in this phone book wanted to."
Yes, J.R. had legions of enemies with scores to settle. But who among them did the deed? And why did J.R.'s time run out, in all places, in a room at a Mexican flophouse?
His memorial takes place at the Dallas Petroleum Club, where high-powered mourners flock to bid him farewell.
Here are real-life local swells including Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Here are "Dallas" characters from way back including former wild child Lucy (Charlene Tilton), J.R.'s niece; Ray Krebbs (Steve Kanaly), the illegitimate son of J.R.'s father; and Gary (Ted Shackelford), the "black sheep" brother who left Dallas for a long life on series spinoff "Knots Landing."
But the embittered John Ross isn't buying that any of the gathered have a kind thought for his father: "Half these people are here to make sure he's dead. The other half are here for the free drinks."
Then decorum is shattered by Cliff Barnes, the Ewings' archenemy (played by Ken Kercheval), who storms into the room and tells J.R.'s brother Bobby, "Since you lost your junkyard dog, there's nothing to keep me from taking your family down."
Is it any wonder a brawl erupts?
The next day, J.R. is mourned at a private graveside service.
Several of the principals speak, and, hearing them, it would be hard for any "Dallas" devotee not to grieve the loss of Larry Hagman, nor to wonder if some of the actors' sorrowful display comes from genuinely missing their fallen cast mate.
Among them is Sue Ellen, who tearfully reveals a letter she has just received from J.R. that begs her for a second chance: "When I get back to Dallas, will you have dinner with me?"
It also turns out J.R. left behind another letter, this one addressed to Bobby (Patrick Duffy).
But what that letter reveals, Bobby isn't saying — not to his family nor, God forbid, the audience.
"I knew you'd have at least one more (trick) left up your sleeve, J.R.," Bobby murmurs later, alone, as he knocks back bourbons poured from J.R.'s own decanter. "And it's a good one."
The task for "Dallas" to outlive J.R. Ewing is huge. Rest in peace, Larry Hagman. But there better be no peace on this show in J.R.'s absence if it hopes to survive its magnificent villain.


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A few weeks ago I was invited by LACMA's Collections Manager, Lana Johnson, to a very special art opening in her office—a "break opening," as in, come during your fifteen-minute coffee break. The invitation mentioned free cookies; I was sold.
Lana had commissioned the work on view from Senior Art Preparator and artist Steve Craig. Inspiration came to Steve from a conversation with Lana where she told him of her never-ending quest to find space for the storage and protection of LACMA's permanent collection as well as the crates that contain them—a dilemma that often prompts her to ask herself: Where am I supposed to put this?
So, Steve set to work, creating "Where Am I Supposed to Put This," an installation that consists of a wall contraption that mimics a rudimentary balance. At each side of the balance hang two small crates made to resemble those used here at the museum to transport and house artwork—logos, markings, and all.
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WASHINGTON - Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas, a trailblazing journalist who reported on every US president from John Kennedy to Barack Obama, died on Saturday at the age of 92, the Gridiron Club and Foundation said.
Thomas, who broke many barriers for female journalists during her 49 years on the White House beat for United Press International and Hearst newspapers and died after a long illness, the Washington journalists' organisation said in a statement.
As the senior news service correspondent at the White House, Thomas ended dozens of presidential news conferences with the familiar phrase "Thank you, Mr. President."
She was known for her straight-to-the-point questioning of presidents and press secretaries in a manner that some considered dogged. Others, including many fellow reporters, considered her style in her later years to be too combative and agenda-driven.
President Barack Obama in a statement praised "her fierce belief that our democracy works best when we ask tough questions and hold our leaders to account," and noted that in her long tenure Thomas "never failed to keep presidents - myself included - on their toes."
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, praised her as "a pioneering journalist" who added "more than her share of cracks to the glass ceiling."
In the last 10 years of her career Thomas was a columnist for Hearst, a job that allowed her opinions to surface more than in her work as a hard-news reporter for UPI.
Thomas announced in June 2010 that she was retiring from Hearst, effective immediately, after comments she made about Israel and the Palestinians, including that Israel should "get the hell out of Palestine," were captured on videotape and widely disseminated on the Internet.
Thomas later issued a statement: "I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognise the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon."
Thomas believed the Washington media had grown soft and was reluctant to challenge government, views she shared in her 2007 book "Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public."
She was especially rough on former President George W. Bush, whom in 2003 she described as the "worst president ever," and the Iraq war, which she felt the media had abetted by not challenging Bush strongly enough on it.
In 2009 she asked Obama: "When are you going to get out of Afghanistan? Why are we continuing to kill and die there? What is the real excuse? And don't give us this Bushism 'If we don't go there, they'll all come here.'"
Veteran NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell on Saturday tweeted that Thomas "made it possible for all of us who followed," and Dana Perino, press secretary for George W. Bush, tweeted, "First day I ever took the podium she came to encourage me."
Thomas was often combative in dealing with the White House, particularly when she felt she was being denied access. Reuters White House reporter Steve Holland recalled that early one morning during Clinton's presidency, she was spotted kicking the locked door to the White House press office, demanding to speak to the staff.
Thomas grew up in Detroit, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, and will be buried in that city. Middle Eastern affairs were a strong interest and the impromptu comments about Israel and the Palestinians in May 2010 were her undoing.
Asked by an interviewer from the website rabbilive.com if she had any comments about Israel, Thomas responded, "Get the hell out of Palestine." She said Jews should "go home, to Poland and Germany, America and everywhere else."
After the interview spread on the Internet, her comments were criticised by the White House, the White House Correspondents' Association, the co-author of one of her books and the agency that handled her speaking engagements, among others. Shortly after, she announced her retirement, two months short of her 90th birthday.
Thomas established a number of firsts for women journalists in becoming one of Washington's best known reporters. She was the first woman officer in the White House Correspondents Association in its 50-year history, becoming its first woman president. In 1975, she broke the 90-year all-male barrier at the Gridiron Club, an organisation of leading Washington journalists, and became its first female president in 1993.
She also supported scores of women starting out in the news business.
Thomas's career began as a copy girl on the Washington Daily News and she joined what was then known as United Press in 1943. She was assigned to the White House in 1961 in part because of the great interest in first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, as well as the new young president. She became UPI White House bureau chief in 1974, the first woman to head a wire service bureau there. She stayed in that position until 2000 when she joined Hearst.
Thomas first came to public notice during the Watergate era when she started receiving late-night phone calls from Martha Mitchell, the wife of Attorney General John Mitchell, discussing the scandal.
"I have witnessed presidents in situations of great triumph and adulation, when they are riding the crest of personal fulfillment, and I have seen them fall off their pedestals through an abuse of power or what President Clinton called 'a lapse of critical judgment,'" she wrote in her memoir "Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times."
Thomas married a professional rival, Douglas Cornell of the Associated Press, in 1971. He died in 1982.


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And the critic said, "Fear not, for this book takes its text from the Gospel of Luke, which shall be found in the King James Version of the Bible."
The Nativity. Illustrated by Julie Vivas. Voyager Books, 36 pp., $7, paperback. Ages 4–8.
By Janice Harayda
It's a miracle: For once I agree with the American Library Association www.ala.org, which named The Nativity a Notable Book of the year after its first American publication in 1988. I haven't seen every version of the Christmas story for preschoolers. But as a former Sunday school teacher, I've seen a lot. And take it from somebody who knows how to make remarkably convincing angels – well, sort of convincing — by folding back the handles of coffee cups and glue-ing on ping-pong ball heads: This book is the best for its age group.
The Nativity has several big advantages over most other picture books about birth of Christ and the arrival of the shepherds and wise men. One of these is that it tells the story through the rich and resonant text of the Gospel of Luke from the King James Version of the Bible, dropping only a phrase or two here and there for clarity or space. ("Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people" becomes "Fear not, I bring you tidings of great joy.") Another advantage of the book is that the characters have no fixed race, so all kinds of families can identify with them. A third is that Vivas provides dynamic but offbeat and deglamorized watercolor illustrations — no gilt halos, no foil star, no flocked sheep. So The Nativity is more accurate than many of the books that have a Jesus, Mary, and Joseph who might have come straight from a DreamWorks casting call.
Then what's not to like? For many families, nothing. But The Nativity has a painting that shows baby Jesus in what Hollywood calls "full frontal nudity." I can only image the reaction of the mother who once wrote me angry letter after I praised a book by Maurice Sendak with similar anatomical detail. "Why on earth would I want to buy my child a book with pictures of naked babies?" she asked. And although The Nativity is widely available in bookstores, it's so popular that it may sell out well before Christmas. My local bookstore had only one copy, much upstaged by newer titles. I snapped it up. Go thou and do likewise — this weekend – if you'd like to read The Nativity this season.
Best line: All.
Worst line: None.
Recommended if … you believe that a child who can sing "Baby Beluga" can understand: "And she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them at the inn."
Published: 1988 (first U.S. edition), 2006 (Restored Voyager Books edition).
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JPMorgan: Trading Loss Grows To $4.4 Billion
The largest bank in the U.S., JPMorgan Chase, this morning released its second quarter results. It's net income was $5 billion, but it turns out that loses in a failed hedging strategy involving a secretive trader were much higher than what the bank originally said the loss would be. In fact, JPMorgan lost $4.4 billion last quarter on those risky trades.
As NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports, that's not the full extent of the firm's damage.
YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE: In addition to the $4.4 billion loss, JPMorgan restated its first quarter results to reflect some additional losses. The bank said that was the result of shady accounting by some traders in its chief investment office, trying to potentially mask their losses.
That had JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on an investor conference call this morning, once again, striking an apologetic tone.
JAMIE DIMON: I Tell you (technical difficulty) believe in generally and conservative accounting principles. We don't like to deceive ourselves about whether their earning money or not. And, obviously, this thing is also a little bit of an exception there.
NOGUCHI: In total so far this year, those controversial trading losses come to $5.8 billion, nearly three times what JPMorgan initially projected when it first announced its problems in May. Several top executives and traders from the chief investment office have lost their jobs.
DIMON: We are not proud this moment, but we are proud of our company. We're not making light of this error, but we do think it's an isolated event. One of the reasons you do hold capital is for known and unknown events. Obviously, this one we shot ourselves in the foot.
NOGUCHI: The trading losses are particularly embarrassing for JPMorgan, which was once a model of risk management. For one, the bank had been one of the more vocal critics against new regulations that would restrict firms making risky trades with their own capital. Also, the bank has now drawn scrutiny from the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are investigating its trading losses.
JPMorgan shares have lost more than 16 percent of their value since the trading losses were first announced May 10th. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Situation of Love
Posted by The Situationist Staff on February 15, 2008
The last time you had sex, there was arguably not a thought in your head. . . . [I]f it was that kind of sex that's the whole reason you took up having sex in the first place–the out-of-breath, out-of-body, can- you-believe-this- is-actually-happening kind of sex–the rational you had probably taken a powder.Losing our faculties over a matter like sex ought not to make much sense for a species like ours that relies on its wits. A savanna full of predators, after all, was not a place to get distracted. But the lure of losing our faculties is one of the things that makes sex thrilling–and one of the very things that keeps the species going. As far as your genes are concerned, your principal job while you're alive is to conceive offspring, bring them to adulthood and then obligingly die so you don't consume resources better spent on the young. Anything that encourages you to breed now and breed plenty gets that job done.
But mating and the rituals surrounding it make us come unhinged in other ways too, ones that are harder to explain by the mere babymaking imperative. There's the transcendent sense of tenderness you feel toward a person who sparks your interest. There's the sublime feeling of relief and reward when that interest is returned. There are the flowers you buy and the poetry you write and the impulsive trip you make to the other side of the world just so you can spend 48 hours in the presence of a lover who's far away. That's an awful lot of busywork just to get a sperm to meet an egg–if merely getting a sperm to meet an egg is really all that it's about.
Human beings make a terrible fuss about a lot of things but none more than romance. . . .
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On its good days (and love has a lot of them), all this seems to make perfect sense. Nearly 30 years ago, psychologist Elaine Hatfield of the University of Hawaii and sociologist Susan Sprecher now of Illinois State University developed a 15-item questionnaire that ranks people along what the researchers call the passionate-love scale. Hatfield has administered the test in places as varied as the U.S., Pacific islands, Russia, Mexico, Pakistan and, most recently, India and has found that no matter where she looks, it's impossible to squash love. "It seemed only people in the West were goofy enough to marry for passionate love," she says. "But in all of the cultures I've studied, people love wildly."
What scientists, not to mention the rest of us, want to know is, Why? What makes us go so loony over love? Why would we bother with this elaborate exercise in fan dances and flirtations, winking and signaling, joy and sorrow? "We have only a very limited understanding of what romance is in a scientific sense," admits John Bancroft, emeritus director of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind., a place where they know a thing or two about the way human beings pair up. But that limited understanding is expanding. The more scientists look, the more they're able to tease romance apart into its individual strands–the visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, neurochemical processes that make it possible. None of those things may be necessary for simple procreation, but all of them appear essential for something larger. What that something is–and how we achieve it– is only now coming clear.
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If human reproductive behavior is a complicated thing, part of the reason is that it's designed to serve two clashing purposes. On the one hand, we're driven to mate a lot. On the other hand, we want to mate well so that our offspring survive. If you're a female, you get only a few rolls of the reproductive dice in a lifetime. If you're a male, your freedom to conceive is limited only by the availability of willing partners, but the demands of providing for too big a brood are a powerful incentive to limit your pairings to the female who will give you just a few strong young. For that reason, no sooner do we reach sexual maturity than we learn to look for signals of good genes and reproductive fitness in potential partners and, importantly, to display them ourselves.
"Every living human is a descendant of a long line of successful maters," says David Buss, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin. "We've adapted to pick certain types of mates and to fulfill the desires of the opposite sex."
One of the most primal of those desires is that a possible partner smells right. Good smells and bad smells are fundamentally no different from each other; both are merely volatile molecules wafting off an object and providing some clue as to the thing that emitted them. Humans, like all animals, quickly learn to assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect us in equally powerful ways.
The best-known illustration of the invisible influence of scent is the way the menstrual cycles of women who live communally tend to synchronize. . . .
But how does one female signal the rest? The answer is almost certainly smell. Pheromones–or scent-signaling chemicals–are known to exist among animals, and while scientists have had a hard time unraveling the pheromonal system in humans, they have isolated a few of the compounds. One type, known as driver pheromones, appears to affect the endocrine systems of others. Since the endocrine system plays a critical role in the timing of menstruation, there is at least a strong circumstantial case that the two are linked. "It's thought that there is a driver female who gives off something that changes the onset of menstruation in the other women," says chemist Charles Wysocki of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
It's not just women who respond to such olfactory cues. One surprising study published last October in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior showed that strippers who are ovulating average $70 in tips per hour; those who are menstruating make $35; those who are not ovulating or menstruating make $50. Other studies suggest that men can react in more romantic ways to olfactory signals. In work conducted by Martie Haselton, an associate professor of psychology at UCLA, women report that when they're ovulating, their partners are more loving and attentive and, significantly, more jealous of other men. "The men are picking up on something in their partner's behavior that tells them to do more mate-guarding," Haselton says.
Scent not only tells males which females are primed to conceive, but it also lets both sexes narrow their choices of potential partners. Among the constellation of genes that control the immune system are those known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which influence tissue rejection. Conceive a child with a person whose MHC is too similar to your own, and the risk increases that the womb will expel the fetus. Find a partner with sufficiently different MHC, and you're likelier to carry a baby to term.
Studies show that laboratory mice can smell too-similar MHC in the urine of other mice and will avoid mating with those individuals. In later work conducted at the University of Bern in Switzerland, human females were asked to smell T shirts worn by anonymous males and then pick which ones appealed to them. Time and again, they chose the ones worn by men with a safely different MHC. And if the smell of MHC isn't a deal maker or breaker, the taste is. Saliva also contains the compound, a fact that Haselton believes may partly explain the custom of kissing, particularly those protracted sessions that stop short of intercourse. "Kissing," she says simply, "might be a taste test."
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[We've omitted the articles summary of fascinating research on the way the birth-control pill can disable or distort some of those processes, the effect of how a potential partner looks and sounds, the possible interactions between those features, and the "trip-wire" effect of a kiss. We've also omitted the article's summary of Helen Fisher's research, which we've described in other posts.]
Love Gone Wrong
The problem with romance is that it doesn't always deliver the goods. For all the joy it promises, it can also play us for fools, particularly when it convinces us that we've found the right person, only to upend our expectations later. Birth-control pills that mask a woman's ability to detect her mate's incompatible MHC are one way bad love can slip past our perimeters. Adrenaline is another. Any overwhelming emotional experience that ratchets up your sensory system can distort your perceptions, persuading you to take a chance on someone you should avoid.
Psychologist Arthur Aron of the State University of New York at Stony Brook says people who meet during a crisis–an emergency landing of their airplane, say–may be much more inclined to believe they've found the person meant for them. "It's not that we fall in love with such people because they're immensely attractive," he says. "It's that they seem immensely attractive because we've fallen in love with them."
If that sounds a lot like what happens when people meet and date under the regular influence of drugs or alcohol, only to sober up later and wonder what in the world they were thinking, that's because in both cases powerful chemistry is running the show. When hormones and natural opioids get activated, explains psychologist and sex researcher Jim Pfaus of Concordia University in Montreal, you start drawing connections to the person who was present when those good feelings were created. "You think someone made you feel good," Pfaus says, "but really it's your brain that made you feel good."
Of course, even a love fever that's healthily shared breaks eventually, if only because–like any fever–it's unsustainable over time. Fisher sees the dangers of maladaptive love in fMRI studies she's conducting of people who have been rejected by a lover and can't shake the pain. In these subjects, as with all people in love, there is activity in the caudate nucleus, but it's specifically in a part that's adjacent to a brain region associated with addiction. If the two areas indeed overlap, as Fisher suspects, that helps explain why telling a jilted lover that it's time to move on can be fruitless–as fruitless as admonishing a drunk to put a cork in the bottle.
Happily, romance needn't come to ruin. Even irrational animals like ourselves would have quit trying if the bet didn't pay off sometimes. The eventual goal of any couple is to pass beyond serial dating–beyond even the thrill of early love–and into what's known as companionate love. That's the coffee-and-Sunday-paper phase, the board-games-when-it's-raining phase, and the fact is, there's not a lick of excitement about it. But that, for better or worse, is adaptive too. If partners are going to stay together for the years of care that children require, they need a love that bonds them to each other but without the passion that would be a distraction. As early humans relied more on their brainpower to survive–and the dependency period of babies lengthened to allow for the necessary learning–companionate bonding probably became more pronounced.
That's not to say that people can't stay in love or that those couples who say they still feel romantic after years of being together are imagining things. Aron has conducted fMRI studies of some of those stubbornly loving pairs, and initial results show that their brains indeed look very much like those of people newly in love, with all the right regions lighting up in all the right ways. "We wondered if they were really feeling these things," Aron says. "But it looks like this is really happening."
These people, however, are the exceptions, and nearly all relationships must settle and cool. That's a hard truth, but it's a comforting one too. Long for the heat of early love if you want, but you'd have to pay for it with the solidity you've built over the years. "You've got to make a transition to a stabler state," says Barry McCarthy, a psychologist and sex therapist based in Washington. If love can be mundane, that's because sometimes it's meant to be.
Calling something like love mundane, of course, is true only as far as it goes. Survival of a species is a ruthless and reductionist matter, but if staying alive were truly all it was about, might we not have arrived at ways to do it without joy–as we could have developed language without literature, rhythm without song, movement without dance? Romance may be nothing more than reproductive filigree, a bit of decoration that makes us want to perpetuate the species and ensures that we do it right. But nothing could convince a person in love that there isn't something more at work–and the fact is, none of us would want to be convinced. That's a nut science may never fully crack.
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To read the entire article, which we recommend, click here. For related Situationist posts, go to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," "The Situation of Cupid's Arrow," "How System Threat Affects Cupid," and "The Situation of Flirting."
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Ex-GalleyCat ed Jason Boog on raising bookworms
NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Boog was immersed in publishing for five years as editor of the MediaBistro blog GalleyCat. When he became a dad, he was curious how best to foster a love of books in his newborn daughter.
His solution was — what else? — writing a book about raising bookworms, "Born Reading," out in July from Touchstone. Boog, 37, lives in Los Angeles with his wife and now nearly 4-year-old daughter, Olive. He works for a film production company, connecting screenwriters with experts to assist story development.
Boog's book coincides with a policy issued Tuesday from the American Academy of Pediatrics asking doctors to stress that parents should read to kids every day, beginning in infancy.
Four questions for Jason Boog:
AP: Isn't there enough guidance out there on fostering a love of reading in babies and young children?
Boog: When I was just starting to introduce my daughter to books, the iPad, lots of digital devices, were swamping the market. They entered the marketplace so quickly that I don't think we as parents, or even the child development experts — no one really — had enough time to process the whole change. There was this rapid shift in the way we read, so I set out in the book to speak to scientists, child development experts on how best to handle the new landscape.
AP: Are parents too exhausted in their child's first year to read to them?
Boog: I started to read to my daughter from the very first few days of her life. On the one hand it's boring to have these newborns. They don't do very much. They kind of just sit there and you kind of need something to do to entertain them and entertain yourself.
Then when I started speaking to the experts about it, that act of reading, even if your child is not speaking and not pointing to things in a book, but the act and the sound of your voice is turning on switches in their brain constantly in those first two years of life. I didn't realize that.
So I would set her up in her bouncy chair and as she drank her bottle I would pull out a board book and read it to her. Every single day you would see a little bit more light in those eyes and you would see her start to follow the story a little bit.
AP: How do you feel about the recommendation of no screen time for children under 2?
Boog: Some parents ban it completely during those first two years. We definitely let Olive grab the iPhone or the iPad when we were on airplanes or in long lines. We kind of used it as the pacifier of last resort. I still struggle on a daily basis with my daughter to balance my need for making her lunch, for doing my work or getting dressed.
She would play with the iPad all day if I let her, until she fell over and fell asleep. She has nothing in her brain that tells her to turn it off. It's a constant struggle for 21st- century parents to figure out what the perfect balance is for their child and devices.
Realistically, you can't have zero screen time the way the world works now, with parents using devices every day and children seeing them every day. They're going to be curious. They're going to want to touch them.
AP: Do you think parents, pediatricians, day care providers and others do enough to read to or expose babies and young children to reading?
Boog: Over the last 30 years we've developed this very rich body of research about the science of interactive reading. That is reading to your child in a way where you're asking questions, where you're having them compare it to their own experiences, where it's a very active, participatory experience. You can use a device, you can do it while watching 'Sesame Street,' with a song, but it's you and your child and not your child and a device.
So we've had 30 years of research telling us it's just crucial for a developing brain to do this. I feel like at a time when books, maybe, are receding a little bit from the public imagination, it's almost a public health issue to know this. People should be handing something out at the hospital saying it's really important that you do this with your child, have this interactive experience. It doesn't have to be an either-or proposition — book over device.
It would be a terrible tragedy if the art of reading to your child is lost in the digital transition.
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